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Industrial Revolution
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History
5th Grade
11/08/2010

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Industrial Revolution
Definition
time period of new inventions and technology
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monopoly
Definition
company that controls and entire industry
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mass production
Definition
making large quantities of goods that are exactly alike
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J.P. Morgan
Definition
financer
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Albert Einstein
Definition
helped develop the atomic bomb
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John D. Rockefeller
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Standard Oil Company
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Andrew Carnegie
Definition
King of Steel
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Samuel Morse
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invented the telegraph
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Henry Ford
Definition
developed the Model T using the assembly line
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Wright Brothers
Definition
first manned flight Kitty Hawk North Carolina 1903
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Thomas Edison
Definition
made improvements to the light bulb; phonograph; power stations
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Alexander Graham Bell
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invented the telephone
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immigrant
Definition
person who moves from another country to live
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Reasons for Immigration
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to live in freedom, to worship as they please, to escape poverty, to make a better living for themselves and families
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Ellis Island
Definition
immigration processing center located in New York harbor
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Angel Island
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"Ellis Island of the West Coast"
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urbanization
Definition
movement of people from rural areas to the cities
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tenement
Definition
building divided in small apartments
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Troubles people faced in cities
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overcrowding, disease, dirty, dangerous, unhealthy, lack of heat
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sweatshops
Definition
hot, cramped workshops; poor conditions
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strike
Definition
refusal to work until demands are met
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political machine
Definition
a group or organization that tries to control votes to gain political power
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